Have you ever lost a bet and had to buy lunch for a coworker ?
Me too. Lotsa times.
I sometimes use it as a means of creating a bond between those who are in a support position for me.
They don’t get as many perks as I do, so I lose bets to them every now and then and buy them a lunch or some donuts or whatever.
They love to get into my wallet and I love making ‘em feel like they got something over on me.
They like me more than any of the other sales people in our organization and that works in my favor.
It’s kinda like an organized bribe on my part and they never seem to notice that I lose almost every bet.
I lost another one last week to a young man whose butt I ride all the time, trying to get him to catch on to more things and trying to get him to be a bit better. When it starts to get to him, I lose a bet and he feels better.
I went to pick up our lunches and the hostess was, how shall we put this …. stupid ? An idiot ? Worthless ?
Yeah, those will do … for a start.
I asked her if I could pick up a couple of sandwiches to go and she said she would try to find someone to take my order, but ” … they all are real good at hiding out in their places and I have trouble finding them, but when I hide, they find me. “
At this point, I wasn’t real sure who “they” were, but I was hoping it wasn’t the people from I Am Legend or the things in The Mist.
About 15 minutes into my ordeal, which I won’t document here ( I’m saving it for a podcast ), a mother and son came in. The boy looked to be 14 to 16.
The hostess with the leastess says to the young man, ” Why ain’t you in school ? “
Not Hi, not welcome to XXX ( name withheld to protect my bank account ), not anything that you’d expect from a hostess.
The young man said, ” I’m homeschooled. ”
So The Brain says, ” Oh, that means you get to play hooky and eat lunch. “
I myself went to a public school and ate lunch every day, so I don’t know where she went or if she actually went.
So here’s the questions I have:
Will that mother and son ever eat there again ?
Will the management ever find out that she’s a complete and finely tuned utter fool ?
Can she and will she affect the repeat business ?
Would you let it bother you and would you go back if you were that mother and son ?
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